API: Adding SSH key when creating a droplet

I’m trying to add the key to the root user of the droplet I am creating. In fact I’m trying to add half a dozen fingerprints to each droplet for our team.

The goal is to avoid the onerous setup of having to log into each droplet and change the password from the one that was auto generated.

The answer below seems to be related to the digital ocean account ssh key. The keys I want to add are from my group’s public keys on off their laptops.

I feel confused. Which is which. Can you explain how I ssh into a droplet with my self generated key and how I format multiple keys into the root user with the api. Not all users who ssh into our droplets will have a digital ocean account.

From the V2 docs re: create new droplet: ssh_keys - Array - An array containing the IDs or fingerprints of the SSH keys that you wish to embed in the Droplet’s root account upon creation.

Thanks, Chris.

So

curl -D - -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" -d '{"name":"git","region":"nyc3","size":"512mb","image":"ubuntu-14-04-x64","ssh_keys":["11:37:44:86:62:15:86:5f:0c:7d:41:0b:39:cb:3c:44"],"backups":false,"ipv6":true,"user_data":null,"private_networking":null}' "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets" > droplet-git.json

I believe you want to use the fingerprint value (e.g. 11:37:44:86:62:15:86:5f:0c:7d:41:0b:39:cb:3c:44) not the actual public key.

Latest version, still failing:

curl -D - -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" 
-H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" -d '{"name":"git","region":"nyc3","size":"512mb","image":"ubuntu-14-04-x64",
"ssh_keys":["ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQDN5Z0EHKo09iLXvsggp1epyjhisZ2W3MG8LBuDSW/cQQXl66kcb8Vd1tp9sEZ9EkqWNtmikl22k4QQeLSD59EvXMvwxlBWWq8V8+arAbbcJTDfCfEBWYo/LgjArCutLsbfIu272IDwyXLRD5LPu9kXHhF20woVFWPm8AsLpCsV92k7ZY/eGYrwOPVowUi19ribyl0NOtsMu6paijcat7WGHBGfY2IIkgACKj5bMaNipfVkYonZX9SVY4SWurLGXLxoU16zXz2bs4we8LiW0yRWdHI9h6YEoZAn/IJodWQtEnL0k+4ydvWKz0UXo2RlM8GPFqA/zRLQ923EpZq4sbgf tom@example.com"],"backups":false,"ipv6":true,"user_data":null,"private_networking":null}' "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets" > create-results.json

And the output is:

{"id":"unprocessable_entity","message":"ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQDN5Z0EHKo09iLXvsggp1epyjhisZ2W3MG8LBuDSW/cQQXl66kcb8Vd1tp9sEZ9EkqWNtmikl22k4QQeLSD59EvXMvwxlBWWq8V8+aro6DcJTDfCfEBWYo/LgjArCutLsbfIu272IDwyXLRD5LPu9kXHhF20woVFWPm8AsLpCsV92k7ZY/eGYrwOPVowUi19ribyl0NOtsMu6paijcat7WGHBGfY2IIkgACKj5bMaNipfVkYonVY4SWurLGXLxoU16zXz2bs4we8LiW0yRWdHI9h6YEoZAn/IJodWQtEnL0k+4ydvWKz0UXo2RlM8GPFqA/zRLQ923EpZq4sbgf tom@example.com are invalid key identifiers for Droplet creation."}

Still not working, but I think it should probably be closer to this (TOKEN is a valid token defined in my environment):

curl -D - -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" -d '{"name":"git","region":"nyc3","size":"512mb","image":"ubuntu-14-04-x64","ssh_keys":[{"ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQDN5Z0EHKo09iLXvsggp1epyjhisZ2W3MG8LBuDSW/cQQXl66kcb8Vd1tp9sEZ9EkqWNtmikl22k4QQeLSD59EvXMvwxlBWWq8V8+aro6DcJTDfCfEBWYo/LgjArCutLsbfIu272IDXyXLRD5LPu9kXHhF20woVFWPm8AsLpCsV92k7ZY/eGYrwOPVowUi19ribyl0NOtsMu6paijcat7WGHBGfY2IIkgACKj5bMaNipfVkYonZX9SVY4SWurLGXLxoU16zXz2bs4we8LiW0yRWdHI9h6YEoZAn/IJodWQtEnL0k+4ydvWKz0UXo2RlM8GPFqA/zRLQ923EpZq4sbgf tom@example.com"}],"backups":false,"ipv6":true,"user_data":null,"private_networking":null}' "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets" > droplet-git.json

Output is:

{"id":"bad_request","message":"Your request body was malformed."}

This exact command but with “ssh_keys”:null works perfectly, creating a droplet.